BNP against cameras.
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deltaf

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6,806 posts

284 months

Friday 4th April 2003
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Apparently the BNP are against speed cameras, see their manifesto claims here:

Council Elections 2003
Democracy in action through the BNP
Your chance to make a change.
TRANSPORT THAT WORKS

In the case of city councils with responsibility for local transport policy, BNP councillors will press for pilot schemes involving ultra-low pollution hydrogen buses, trams, and for a feasibility study on the implementation of the University of Bristol’s Engineering faculty research team’s Urban Light Transport (ULTRA) proposals for an automatically controlled personal taxi system (http://atg.fen.bris.ac.uk)

The families of thugs convicted of violence or vandalism on public transport in the area should face eviction. There is little possibility of encouraging more people to use public transport unless the public are convinced that it is safe to do so.

BNP councillors will press for the introduction of flexible speed limits outside schools. Limits of 20 mph should be imposed near school crossings at the times when children are arriving at or leaving school, but there is no purpose imposing such restrictions on the same stretches of road while pupils are in class or late in the evening.

There is a growing body of scientific evidence that speed cameras encourage erratic driving and cause accidents. BNP councillors will resist the use of speed cameras as an extra tax on motorists. Many roads need flexible speed limits – what would be an unsafe speed at 3.30pm may be unnecessarily slow at 11pm. The laws against dangerous driving should be used more, and blanket speed traps discouraged. New Labour’s war against drivers is unjust and socially and economically harmful.
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Now whether or not they will actually DO any of what they claim i cannot say, but it would seem that on this point alone, they will gain some support.
Then again, do any of the other lot DO what they promise either?



planetdave

9,922 posts

284 months

Friday 4th April 2003
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It's just a bit too much to bite off. Anyone got the akkers for a parliamentary deposit for the newly formed PHparty (right here,right now!)

deltaf

Original Poster:

6,806 posts

284 months

Friday 4th April 2003
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Lol, you standing then?

planetdave

9,922 posts

284 months

Friday 4th April 2003
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SHOW ME THE MONEY (or has that one been used yet)

CarZee

13,382 posts

298 months

Friday 4th April 2003
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Problem is, no-one wants these fcukers on-side.. the simple fact that the BNP are against speed-cameras will be cited by some nonce as proof that they must be a good thing and Joe Pube-lick will know no different than the BNP are a fundamentally nasty & inhuman party therefore everything they support must be wrong.

You can bet that's how the BBC will spin it.

Convincing the BNP to loudly endorse a coutry-wide expansion of gatsos, truvelo and specs would see the infernal things taken down overnight.

Supercharged

102 posts

284 months

Friday 4th April 2003
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Couldn't agree more Carzee, I can't see that the support of the BNP could do anything, but remove weight from what is a basically sensible argument.

PatHeald

8,058 posts

287 months

Friday 4th April 2003
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I don't care what the British Nazi Party supports, they won't get my vote.

corozin

2,680 posts

302 months

Friday 4th April 2003
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I suppose the BNP must really hate yellow speed cameras then...

deltaf

Original Poster:

6,806 posts

284 months

Friday 4th April 2003
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Might be an idea to shake up the present lot of w*nkers though?

JohnL

1,766 posts

296 months

Friday 4th April 2003
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'kay then I've decided speed cameras are a good thing

boosted ls1

21,200 posts

291 months

Saturday 5th April 2003
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I'd prefer a land full of cameras compared to these thugs.

dcb

6,070 posts

296 months

Saturday 5th April 2003
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boosted ls1 said: I'd prefer a land full of cameras compared to these thugs.


It seems to me that they are unlikely to get in.

They would get my vote, merely as a protest against
the usual politicos.

One step up from a spoiled vote, I guess.



JohnL

1,766 posts

296 months

Sunday 6th April 2003
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dcb said:...

One step up from a spoiled vote, I guess.


No it isn't.

Del Sydyway

101 posts

289 months

Monday 7th April 2003
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JohnL said:

dcb said:...

One step up from a spoiled vote, I guess.


No it isn't.



Seconded.

icamm

2,153 posts

291 months

Monday 7th April 2003
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I agree. A vote for the BNP is the worst possible thing you can do. If enough people think like this then they get voted in. Saying "I never expected them to actually win" is no excuse when they are in power.

Let's not forget though that fair number of the policies of the Monster Raving Looney party actually became law.

CarZee

13,382 posts

298 months

Monday 7th April 2003
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how utterly predictable..

Vote for the BNP to register my disgust with the incumbent lot? You bet I would! Unfotunately, I somehow doubt they'll be fielding candidates in Basingstoke on May 1st.

Every vote for them is a dissenting voice and it's only the fact that the BNP has had a degree of success in the last year that has made the main parties sit up and take notice of peoples' concern at the immigration and assylum issues they've all been running away from in a fit of blind political correctness.

If you want to waste a vote, then the Conservative party is the box to tick..

plipton

1,302 posts

289 months

Monday 7th April 2003
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What's the Banque Nationale de Paris got to do with speed cameras?

Seriously, any party who promotes one race over another is no better than 1930's Germany !!



>> Edited by plipton on Monday 7th April 14:26

Fatboy

8,270 posts

303 months

Monday 7th April 2003
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Let's not forget though that fair number of the policies of the Monster Raving Looney party actually became law.

My dad always said he voted for joke candidates because they were the least likely to bugger things up if they actually got elected I'll do much the same until there's someone I'd actually find worth voting for.